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...hours. That leaves pilots going into combat with fewer flying hours, and it costs millions in wasted fuel and man-hours. Powerful people are taking note of this little-known price of illegal immigration. "We've had to discontinue something like 15% of the training days," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld grumbled...
...boundary of the range. More cameras to watch the region might help, he says, but a physical barrier is essential. He hopes to replicate the success of the triple-layered fencing outside San Diego that led to a 70% drop in illegal immigration there. That's why he wrote Rumsfeld personally about fencing the range and co-sponsored the Secure Fence Act, a law on President Bush's desk that requires at least two layers of reinforced fencing to be built from Calexico, Calif. to Douglas, Ariz. - right across the bottom of the Goldwater Range...
...That's all you guys do is read these books. You ought to get a life." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Defense Secretary, when asked about the questions raised recently concerning his competence-such as those in State of Denial, Bob Woodward's new book about the Bush Administration in the run-up to the Iraq...
...then there's the strange case of Donald Rumsfeld. Here was a flaming exception to the Bush family code of honor. Rumsfeld was an ancient rival of Bush the Elder who became Secretary of Defense, Woodward implies, because of a mild Oedipal spasm: the Younger wanted to prove the Elder was wrong about the guy. How to explain the current President's continuing, suicidal loyalty to the architect of the Iraq debacle, even after Laura Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld...
...That's all you guys do is read these books. You ought to get a life." DONALD RUMSFELD, U.S. Defense Secretary, when asked about the questions raised recently concerning his competence--such as those in State of Denial, Bob Woodward's new book on the Bush Administration in the run-up to the Iraq...